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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Downright Stupid

Recently I have been just too busy to sit down and type out my thoughts. It's summertime in Maine and that means it is time to get things done outside. But I have a break today from my toils and so I am being lazy at the computer. One thing that I came across was a posting by the guy who banned me from his blog a few months ago because he is a Republican and I was so offensive and such a threat to his self-esteem. On July 15, he linked to this article:"Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?" by Clifford D. May, July 15, 2005http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200507150827.aspIt's about the Karl Rove thing with Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame and Robert Novak.I can't stand reading the whole article. Republican apologetics is sickening to me, especially in the morning when I'm trying to digest breakfast. But this whole thing about how Karl Rove is so innocent and how the damage done, if indeed any damage was done, was all done by the liberals really does have to be just about the stupidest thing Republicans have to believe in this year. Rove and Bush and the whole bunch are liars so in order to believe in their integrity, Republican supporters and apologists have to be really really really stupid!But if I'm reading this article right, on July 14, 2003, Robert Novak published that Joe Wilson's wife Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. The Republican line is that no damage was done by this. Nobody in the CIA felt that any harm had been done to Ms Plame because Novak didn't say she worked undercover. Nobody in the CIA had any concern about any damage being done until two days later when this David Corn published an article (referenced and linked in this Clifford May post) in The Nation.So as a result, Rove didn't do anything wrong. Novak didn't either. Joe Wilson was the one who put his wife and all of her contacts in danger two days after Novak's article when this David Corn guy wrote that Wilson would "neither confirm nor deny that his wife--who is the mother of three-year-old twins--works for the CIA."I don't know about you, but I would have to be one stupid human being to assume that the CIA took no notice and no action when Novak published his article but rather waited two days till this Corn thing came out in The Nation. Just how stupid do Rove and these jerk Republican apologists think the public is? OK so it works on Republicans and it wins elections and it makes jerks like Rove "masterminds," but how does it make America a better place to live?Rove is going to get away with it because Republicans now own the U.S. government, but just how stupid do they expect us to be? How can I help but conclude that Republicans are just simply stupid, too limited in their mental capacities to comprehend even the simplest of concepts?Oh and on another thought, it is often said that the President of the United States is the "leader of the free world," but is that how the "free world" sees it or is it just something we Americans simply imagine?